Product Manager

Working Location: Norfolk, USA

Security Clearance: NATO Secret

Language: High proficiency level in English language

In the past years, many NATO nations started Innovation focused initiatives within military domain to capitalize on the unprecedented acceleration of technological development, primarily within the commercial sector. The developments in the US (NSIN, Air Force Kessel Run Lab), Germany (Cyber Incubators), France (AID), UK (DSTL) paved the way to joint efforts with NATO. Consequently, NATO had established a senior level Innovation Board at NATO HQ chaired by the Deputy Secretary General. The NATO Innovation Board confirmed ACT s role to play the leading role for innovation in NATO. With this mandate, the Innovation Hub provides a space to test hypotheses and solutions turning ideas into user-centric Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) through close collaboration of end users and developers. The Lab provides an incubator environment where ideas will come to life rapidly following the best practices of Agile DevSecOps from industry and the latest research from academia. The Lab operational model is being developed incrementally, and the close collaboration with all stakeholders will shape its culture, processes and toolset.

The iHub will operate in a larger ecosystem of innovation-minded partners. To successfully coordinate innovation activities across partner networks it is essential to establish basic guidance and rules orchestrating interactions via a common framework. This framework will help to better capitalize on larger network capabilities, help avoid duplication of work, and promote reuse of products. The Agile DevSecOps culture that will be established within iHub will be promoted across NATO, while associated processes and toolsets will be easily adaptable by other NATO bodies. The iHub state-of-the-art capabilities will continuously be updated via knowledge transfer from the leading industries.

A University/ Bachelor s in ICT, Business or related discipline

7 years in the last 10 years in the field of Agile product development and delivery

Knowledgeable and continuously educated on industry best practices for product managers overseeing web applications (including Agile methodologies, TDD, CI/CD, etc)

Working knowledge of:

Cloud native applications, and associated production cycles

Agile product management and development tools

Understand customers, technology, and competition, and execute product strategy

Drive the product vision and success across the agile team and effectively communicating this vision to product owner

Manage product roadmaps, backlogs, and prioritization

Plan for and execute product information campaign using modern communication channels (twitter, Facebook, blogs, etc )

Work with software development teams following agile methodologies (Participate in standups, retrospectives, design reviews, user research, and demos)

Translate the needs of users and manage their priorities with the business value of the organization